The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-07-07


card attempting % explain the
certificate business as follows:
+Gen. Adams, iu bis recent card
Intended 10 ezhonerate he parties
certifying, 10 July last, 70 the
prompiness and faifnesa Of the
Penitentiary fellows in settling
their Indebtedness 10 the State,
asserts: that "no allusion was made
to the settlement for the year 1884. I"
Somehow or other, we have been
impressed with the idea al along
that there was some 'allusion" 70 a
settlement for 1894, by somebody,
which created an I'll lusion" in the
public mind and which enabled the
Governor and his pals to triumph
over their opponents, but if Gen.
Adams or any Of the Heircle Of
consangunity' suppose for a mo-
ment they can'evaderesponsibility
for those certificates, by such soph-
istry as he displays in his card Of
last week, the eminent ringsters
are laboring under gross "delu-
sion"
Now what are the facts In the
card Of Hamilton and Hoskins,
published in the Clarion July 22nd,
1885, and Of which the certificates
j. under discussion form a part, we
find these two paragraphs;
"On the lst of December, 1888,
we made a settlement with the
proper authority Of the State of all
matters existing between the State
and the Lessees, and paid the bal
anoe due into the State Treasury,
and in the same manner in 1884,
we made settlement Of all matters
existing between the State and the
Lessees, and paid the balance due
into the State Treasury IN Deceia.
Der of that year. Z Since the
present lease began in 1881, under
terms of our contract and the law
authorizing the same, we have
made improvements consisting OF
buildings, machinery, tools, ETC.
upon the Penitentiary and the
, Penitentiary property amounting
to 500, l67.00, besides unfinished
contracts, and paid in cash into
the State Treasury s46,O2O.6I up
to December 1884"
Then the lessees seem to have
made an "allusion" to a settlement
, up to December 1884.
Maj. McQuiston the Superinten
dent of the Penitentiary certified
under date Of July goth, 1885, that
+ "Hamilton, Allen & Co., lessees 0.
3 the Mississippi Penitentiary and
{ their successors. have made settle
ment for the amounts accruing tC
l. TO the State under their contract
e and paid into the State Treasury
2 all balances due the State up &c
: December lst, 1884. I adjusted
r the accounts, and the Lsssees O
r the Penitentiary hold the Treasur
3 er's receipt for the payment of tn,
n balances due on said settlement.
T. He too makes very pointed anC
positive "allusion" TO settlement
= of all balances due the State up t
e December 1st, 1884. ''He adjusted
Z and certified the accounts" and th'
J, lsssees held the Treasurer's re
= ceipts.
Ex-Attorney General Catching
certifes that Immediately after tn,
passage Of the act Of 1884, Gov
Lowry in writing, called my atten
tion to the same, and I notified tn,
Lessees Of the Penitentiary, wh'
j. made full settlement Of all sum
n due under the law and their COR
b tract up to the lst Of December
; 1884"
Here then is another "allusion'
to a settlement for the year 1884
and its wording is such as to create
an "illusion" that the lessees pai'
a large part Of the sum due on th.
lease for 1884, in advance, for Gen
Catehings distinctly says that 'im
mediately after the passage Of tn
act" which was March 18th, 1884
his attention was called 10 the Law
! hv the Governor. that he nofiiel